Finneas O’Connell, who won an Oscar for his work on James Bond song “No Time To Die,” is best known for producing songs such as sister Billie Eilish’s Grammy-winning “Bad Guy.”
The musician is also responsible for scoring the second season of Netflix ’s Beef , and he closed out Deadline’s Sound & Screen Television awards-season event with a beautiful-but-violent performance of some of the drama’s main themes.
O’Connell revealed that one of his tricks was finding synths that sounded like a “swarm of bees.”
“I live in L.A. near a golf course. You walk by and you hear all of this kind of rhythm in nature. You hear the sprinkler system going and I wanted that to be part of the stressful tempo of the show,” he said. “Then I found these synth patches that, if I turned the envelopes and changed the cutoffs, and then I took the like little pitch-bend thing on the Nord and wobbled it, it really sounded like bees, and it just really stressed me out to play.…